academics
The mission of the academic program is to prepare students for college and life as a creative professional.
Academic instructional environments encourage inquiry and intellectual curiosity, and empower students to raise questions and develop a pattern of lifelong learning. Students enjoy small class sizes, multiple AP options and innovative lessons taught by fully licensed teachers. Curriculum is active, collaborative, and aligned with state standards. Students self-select on-level or advanced and AP options.
The Black Student union (BSU) went exploring for artistic inspiration on their field trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Art this past week. They will be using the inspiration they gathered from a plethora of artwork to inform their performance in February.
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This past week was the annual "Trial of Genghis Khan" in Taylor Lohman's AP World History class. The prosecution was tasked with proving Khan was guilty of excessive brutality and crimes against humanity. For those wondering, he found was guilty on the count of Crimes Against Humanity and innocent on the count of Excessive Brutality. It was very close, the defense had a strong closing statement!
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Our Independent Research & Design seniors presented their topic proposals earlier this week, adapting their formal written structure to shorter, more conversational speeches. Come check out their projects-in-process (when school resumes) in Ms. Johnson's room!
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This past week, in Natalie Reinhart's AP Comparative Government class, students conducted their own version of the U.K. government's weekly Prime Minister's Questions. Students represented 4 different parties, with the majority Conservative Party having to field over 30 minutes of questions about the U.K.'s economy, health care system, climate policy, and i#spcpaacademicsc#SPCPAp#APGovtemics #SPCPA #APGovt … See MoreSee Less
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Today marked the inaugural CommonApp Cookie Party! Seniors gathered during lunches to help each other with college apps and work on profiles. Join us again next Wednesday, Class of 2024!
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We're back! Today was New Student Orientation Day – a full day for 130 new students, faculty, and senior ambassadors (wearing the lavender SPCPA shirts). Tomorrow all returning students join us.
Enjoy the poem below written TODAY by new 10th, 11th, and 12th grade Creative Writing students. In poetry, "exquisite corpse" poems are written by a group of poets, each of whom can only see the line before theirs. (Teachers Ariane Sandford and Michael Kleber-Diggs each contributed one line).
Imprints of Imperfections, an Exquisite Corpse
Late summer, the leaves have not yet started
dreaming of sleep, though not the sort of sleep
that lasts forever. Always in a sleeping mind,
never able to reach sleep, my mind reflects
shadows in the dark, always attempting
to shut it off, but never totally succeeding.
The thought forever ingrained in my mind —
imprints of imperfections constantly reminding me
that I am imperfect. But imperfect beauty —
for all the stars and nebulas are different.
Imperfection is the definition of perfection,
the stars align, perfectly imperfect. And yet
the stars, as we see them, still long to be
the sun.
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